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Depression (mood)
Depression (mood)
In the field of psychology and psychiatry, depression refers to a state of low mood and aversion to activity. Although most often described as an illness or dysfunction, there are also strong arguments to see depression as adaptive defense mechanism.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders like depression, people experience sadness, helplessness and despair. In the tradition of consensus, “depressed” is often synonymous with “sad”, but both clinical depression and non-clinical depression can also refer to a mixture of more than one meaning.
Depression as a defense mechanism
Some authors have shown that depression is an evolutionary adaptation. The key idea is that low mood may improve the ability of individuals to adapt to situations in which efforts to achieve the main objective which can lead to danger, loss, or wasted effort . [5] In such situations, low motivation May benefit by inhibiting a certain action. This theory is supported by the fact that depression is very common, and the fact that he often attack the community during their peak years, at times against the malfunctioning of a depression.
Depression is a predictable response to a certain type of life occur, such as loss of status, divorce or death of children or couples. This event is a signal loss of reproductive capacity or potential, or that it has done in the human ancestral environment. Depression can be regarded as an adaptive response in that it causes a person to turn away from previous (and not reproduction) mode of behavior.
A depressed mood is common during the illness as influenza. Stated that it is a mechanism that evolved to help individuals in recovery from physical activity to him. The low level of depression during the winter months, or seasonal affective disorder, may have been edited in the past, with a limit of physical activity when food was scarce.Although link between weather and availability of food in May no longer exist, he argues that humans have is always very happy to feel depressed during the winter months.
Alternative theory postulates that depression is a request for assistance. However, this view is not credited by many developmental biologists: the depression observed in other types that are not social, and depression in men often actively hidden from others, and even if clear, often fails to get a positive response.
Milder depression was associated with the so-called realism of depression or the “sad-but-wiser” effect, a world view that is relatively undistorted by prejudice.